Genesis 42:19 · JPS 1917

if ye be upright men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses;

Who acts: ye, you, one · What happens: be, let, bind, go, carry · To what, where: upright men, one, prison house, ye, corn

This is Genesis 42:19 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, you, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 men	mark
2	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 men	nsubj
3	be	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 men	cop
4	upright	upright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 let	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 men	punct
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 let	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 brethren	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brethren	nmod:poss
11	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 bound	aux:pass
13	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 let	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 house	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 house	nmod:poss
16	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 house	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 prison	punct
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bound	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 go	cc
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	conj
22	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 go	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 carry	punct
24	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	parataxis
25	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 carry	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 famine	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 famine	det
28	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 carry	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 houses	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 houses	nmod:poss
31	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 famine	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	ye	upright men			tree rules
2	let	imperative	you not said here	one of your brethren			tree rules
3	bind	infinitive · passive	one of your brethren not said here		your prison house		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	go	infinitive	you not said here	ye			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ye=Theme
5	carry	infinitive		corn		for the famine of your houses	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The Hebrew of this verse

אִם־כֵּנִ֣ים אַתֶּ֔ם אֲחִיכֶ֣ם אֶחָ֔ד יֵאָסֵ֖ר בְּבֵ֣ית מִשְׁמַרְכֶ֑ם וְאַתֶּם֙ לְכ֣וּ הָבִ֔יאוּ שֶׁ֖בֶר רַעֲב֥וֹן בָּתֵּיכֶֽם׃

Genesis 42:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1380 of Mova's parse database.

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